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Disruptor

dis-RUP-ternoun

What it means

An unmonetised application that replaces a functioning offline process with an expensive subscription.

What it actually means

The offline process worked fine and it was free.

How it is used in a sentence

"We're not a taxi company, we're a disruptor."

Filed under

Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.

Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.


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